1993 Fat Chance Buckshaver

[mk one]

Ha - Which I bet you’ll sell it to me at an extra special, very good price!

Thanks - will think about it. I have a nos blue x-lite ze which I could put on.. but I have a funny thing about using NOS on a rider. I tend to use NOS exclusively on NOS frames or full resprays. Basically bikes I won’t ride. Prefer mint parts for riders, that way I don’t have to wrestle with the guilt of eating up the community’s dwindling supply of garage Queen parts, then wrecking them in a crash

That is why i have not used it yet

Dug it out as someone else was after it, they may not take it in which case it will be available.

 

[M-Power]

Ha - Which I bet you’ll sell it to me at an extra special, very good price!

Thanks - will think about it. I have a nos blue x-lite ze which I could put on.. but I have a funny thing about using NOS on a rider. I tend to use NOS exclusively on NOS frames or full resprays. Basically bikes I won’t ride. Prefer mint parts for riders, that way I don’t have to wrestle with the guilt of eating up the community’s dwindling supply of garage Queen parts, then wrecking them in a crash

Amen to that. Garage queens are nice but a decent rider is more fun.

 

[BlackCat]

That is why i have not used it yet

Dug it out as someone else was after it, they may not take it in which case it will be available.

Looking nice

The chainrings don't look too bad to me either.

I have a USE post that may be spare that would look good on that

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Humour me, via pm. What are we talking?

 

[BlackCat]

Now finished! Shakedown ride this evening and maybe some better pics, but for now:

 

[raidan73]

Well that's all gone together very nicely indeed Aside from the frame itself, perhaps, there's not been many bucks shaved off I wouldn't imagine

 

[BlackCat]

Well that's all gone together very nicely indeed Aside from the frame itself, perhaps, there's not been many bucks shaved off I wouldn't imagine

Well.. as you no doubt know, it’s easy to get carried away once you get started! Basically anything I owned which was blue ended up stuck to the frame. Case in point in the pic below. Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing

 

[BlackCat]

So.. maiden voyage accomplished. Sort of.

You know when you ride a bike and somewhere in your subconscious.. something seems, well, off - but it’s not immediately apparent what?

My first thought was that it was as simple as saddle angle being a few degrees too low at the nose.. then a little further on I noticed my forks seemed to be running super soft. Ah ha.. so it’s the head angle that was out, due to the forks. That’s what felt “off”. Best dial in some more preload.

Yeah. So that didn’t help..

Pull out the elastomer stacks - which have both been pre-inspected and undergone rigorous bench testing (yes, by holding the steerer, planting the dropouts on the ground and squeezing them up and down by hand - in a manner observable in LBSs countrywide). Everything appeared to be in order, pre-fitting.

Unfortunately with my full weight on them on the bike, however, this quickly happened:

 

[BlackCat]

Annoying. These two bottom elastomers appear to have been hand cut. The rest of the stacks are fine (excluding a missing plastic spacer/ holder cap.. which isn’t in the tube at all). Grrr

 

[SF Klein]

Could you take the divider from the bottom of the left stanchion in the photo and put it on the stanchion on the right side in between the red & yellow bumpers? Then they’d be set up equally. ;-)

 

[BlackCat]

Could you take the divider from the bottom of the left stanchion in the photo and put it on the stanchion on the right side in between the red & yellow bumpers? Then they’d be set up equally. ;-)

I could… but there is another half elastomer to go on each end after that. It’s fine. I’ll order new elastomers and cut them a little longer, if necessary.

I mean, it’s not like M3s delivered state of the art suspension performance even new out of the box in the early 90s! Suspect I can live without the spacers, so long as the stack properly supports my weight.